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Old 11th June 2012
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Hi velikij, and welcome to daemonforums!

I don't use grub either, but in addition to ocicat's advice, two thoughts.

1) If you decide to place NetBSD onto the current FreeBSD partition, you might change the partition type to NetBSD ahead of time with a familiar version of fdisk. This is certainly not necessary, but might make the install a bit less stressful, as you don't have to do that part of the job in an unfamiliar environment.

2) With the limited information, the following may not be new or useful to you, but NetBSD can be installed in an extended partition. Something to think about if your disk has some free space at the end. E.g., if your FreeBSD is in a primary partition, and you ever want to try OpenBSD too, it could go there while keeping NetBSD in the extended partition.

Other than that, go for it and good luck.
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